The Universe. Our Solar System. Ceres.

This is Ceres, is the smallest planet.
Ceres It is a body some 950 km (590 mi) in diameter, comprising about a third of theof the Discovered on 1 January 1801 it was the first asteroid to be identified, though it was classified as a planet at the time. It is named after Ceres, t of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly love.
The Cererian surface is probably a mixture of water ice and various such as carbonates and clays. It appears to be differentiated into a icy an ocean of liquid water under its surface. From Earth, the apparent magnitude of Ceres ranges from 6.7 to 9.3, and hence even at its brightest it is still too dim to be seen with the naked eye except under extremely dark skies. The unmanned spacecraft, launched on 27 September 2007 by NASA is expected to be the first to explore Ceres after its scheduled arrival there in 2015, after the spacecraft leaves the asteroid which it has been orbiting since July 2011.